Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN.

Is trimming trees this fall bear in find that all wounds made by cutting Bibs that are an inch or more in diam~ ter should be. covered with paint, rafting wax, or shellac varnish. Remember that cream always loses i quantity by souring; oversourness esults in greater loss. There is gain a both quantity and quality of butter y churning as soon as cream is ripe. The Maine experiment station has sen conducting an experiment in utter-making with cows of differer-, nt breeds. Alderneys, Holsteins ad Ayrshires were tested, and it was >und that the cream from the cows lving the poorest milk (Holsteins felded less butter by about 26 pe) «nt. than the Alderney cream. Mixed grasses are better for stock han a single variety. No matter totr valuable any particular grass irop pjay be, or how large the yield, he stook will thrive better when fed » a variety. The individual preferences of cattle may differ and they rill all times accept a change of ood, which promotes appetite and hrift. T|te investigation of the South ’arb&na station upon the composition ft fodders has determined that for a ►idrogenouß crop the cow<-ppa vines rq almost without a rival. The crop rifl probably produce more digestible pod than any other, add the manure raich results from the feeding is of he highest value. These excellent rehits are due to the fact that the cow>e& derives a large proportion of its Qtrogen from the atmosphere. G. B. Greer says that he has found he key to the successful management >f a large flock of poultry. It consists >f a house six feet square and six feet ilgh for each fifteen to twenty-five owls; yards 50 by 125 feet to each louse, with a sub-yard 10 feet square n which to confine them close to the muse when desired; lath fences only our feet high between the yards and slipped wings to prevent them flying >ver. This plan, he says, brought both lealthy fowls and eggs. Perennial weeds are the worst of all reeds on the farm as a rule, for when hey are opce in a land they hold their >wn and yearly produce a new crop of ieeds. To get rid of them they must Ittt be kept from yielding seed and hen the plant itself must be eradicate id. If large, they may be pulled up; f small, keeping the leaves cut off rill eventually kill them, but the best iractice of all is to get rid of them by borough and repeated tillage, with torno hoed crop of the land infested. The series of dairy schools which las been started by the Now York )airy Association is a movement in the right direction in the line of agricultural education. Practical instruction m the farm, in all the most approved iractices of agriculture, is quite as accessary as abstruse experiments at the stations. "Science, with practice, ’’ ihould be the agricultural motto

ihroughout civilization. Only by comilnation of tbe two can we learn to avail ourselves of all our resources, pit is certain npw that it is a year of short crops and high prices, Apples are more scarce in both the United States and Canada than for many years. The only region in which the crop is even fair is in the famous orchards of the Annapolis valley, Nova Jcotia, in Maine, and a limited area of Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee, High prices will range for all fruits, and winter apples will be scarce at $4 uad $5 a barrel. Corn, wheat, oats, and potatoes are all short, and prices will range higher than for many seaions heretofore. . We are commonly told that barni yard manure is a ‘complete fertilizer. ” Phis is only true when it is saved and bandied under the very best of conditions. When it is left lying through the winter in small heaps in the open yard, or right under the eaves of the barn or piled up under cover so as to heat, it is by spring very far from bebag complete. Unless it can be stacked under cover and turned frequently, it is better practice to haul it upon the fields and spread it as fast as made. kept in a shed where hogs have the Fun they will keep it well stirred up, especially if a little corn is covered under it once in awhile; but the swine )must not be allowed to sleep in it, as it will scald their 6kins and get them heated and out of condition. In green manuring the best time to plow a crop under is just as it comes into full bloom, or soon thereafter. It is triio that the nitrogen increases up to the time of maturity, but when it has reached that stage it does not decay so readily, and, in consequence, is not ready so soon up to the accumulated store of plant food. By plowing under earlier the fertilizing value will be better distributed throughout the soil, and there will be no annoyance from plants springing! up, which will often be the case where the seed has been allowed to jj Ipen. Quantity, in green manuring, ■ hardly less valuable than quality, qecause of the mechanical effect upon tjbe soil.

; The average potato field this year will turn out a good many small potatoes, and it willgbe a question how to use them to the best profit. If a good flopk of poultry is kept it will pay well to utilize them for poultry food. They should be boiled, and while hot mash with cornmeal and bran, and feed warm. Give only aa much as will be eaten up clean, and not' oftener than every other day. The trouble which Often results from feeding potatoes to is caused by over feeding When the fowls are hungry, and. by Wiving tue potatoes unmixed with anyfiling else. With none of the domestic pnimals is a variety of food more necessary than in the poultry yard, and those who would gain the best results must be continually on the alert to

r supply this need. On« trouble from feeding too large a quantity of toes is that it Will have a tendency to make hens lay eggs that have lightcolored yelks, which th very objectionable. The cornmeal will help to remedy this, as will feeding whole yellow corn and chopped clover hay. Food that will' produce yellow butter will make yellow yelks, and vide versa Aside from the question of increased productiveness, the quality of fruit is enough better to repay the cost There is a wide difference of opinion as to the best method of fertilizing the orchard. In some regions it is the regular practice to ieave the orchard in grass and give regular top dressing of stable manure. It is .doubtful, however, whether the trees receive an adequate benefit from thin method. In a short time the sward becomes so thick and heavy that the fertilizer penetrates to any depth very slowly, and is mainly absorbed by the grass before reaching the trees. If the grass is cut for hay the benefit is still further lessened. A better plan, where the orchard is in grass, is to pasture sheep there. These will keep the grass down close and the sward so well cropped that droppings and manure will more readily penetrate to soma deptji. They also eat up the wormy apples and help keep the coddling moth in check. If the surface is cultivated the fertilizers will soon reach th» tree roots, and the fruit will have the full benefit, as there will be no growing vegetation to take up any part of it.

There is little doubt that the next (and last, by reason of the exhaustion of cheap, cultivable lands) general movement of agricultural home-seek-ers that we shall witness within the present boundaries of the United States will be toward the South. During the lastr few years there has been a large emigration toward that region, but largely in the line of commerce and manufacturers. There has been but a slight augmenting of the agricultural population, and a comparatively | slight increase in production, except the great staple-cotton. Lands are yet cheap there. The development of manufactures has created new markets. Railways have been built so that the shipment of products has been facilitated. The soil responds readily to cultivation, and the husbandman may make choice among a vast number of industries, any one of which he may find profitable in following. It is not well to cultivate a restless spirit, nor to be continually seeking a change; but, if you are looking for new fields to conquer, take advantage of some one of the many cheap railway excursions that are now running to the South and look the land over for your- 7 Self. It does no harm to go away from home once in awhile, anyway. It sometimes serves to make one the more contented with the present lot.

Woman and the Moralities.

Certainly he who understands the women of any time understands the time. The mark of her moulding is on each generation, and each in turn leaves its traces upon her. She mirrors its pervading thought, reflects its most subtle influences, becomes the embodiment and illustration of its life. No stronger evidence of this can we have than appears in the widh opening of doors on every hand into all possible avenues of humau activity and influence. The interests of religion, left in olden time-to the thought and care of the priesthood, depend in too great measure to-day upon the sympathies of woman. They are to a marked degree the real allies and co-workers with the church, the hearers of‘sermons, the regular attendants at prayer meet-. Inga, the teachers in Sunday Schools and the upholders of religious observances everywhere. The week’s labors, however hard, cannot weary her out of her Church going. The Sunday newspapers may multiply pages and compass the wide world’s topics in one issue, or become a mere sardine box close packed with unsavory, unctuous news, it cannot take tho place of her religious weekly. The moralitios are her stronghold, within which she keeps watch, and wars against whatever might destroy or defile the sanctities of home.—Mary Lowe Dickinson, in Harper’s Bazar.

Tho Whistling Well.

In the town of Great Valley, in Cattaraugus county. New York, there is a freak of nature known locally as “the whistling well.” The well was drilled to the depth of forty-five feet a century ago, but no water accumulated. A flat stone with ali inch hole was fitted over the mouth of the well, and a whistle fitted into it, which changed its tone as the air was drawn down or up. In settled wenther the whistle was silent. An approaching storm was heralded by the warning shriek of the whistle as the air rushed out of the well, but a 6 clear weather approached 4he current of air changed and rußhed into the well, and the faithful whistle changed and told the story by its changed tone. The whistle has long been worn out, but the well still continues to advertise the weather. In a heavy rainstorm the out rushing wind forces the rain upward some in the form of a spray.

A Famine Duel.

London Lancet. Jacques the, the professional hunger virtuoso of Paris, has sent a challenge to Succo, the famine debaucheof Italy, to the following effect: “I Alexandre Jacques, having been informed that Sig. Succi intends attempting a fortyfive days’ fast in New York, do hereby challenge him once more to fast for endurance under equal conditions.. I, the child of defy the blatant Italian. Succi. Accept my challenge and starve me, or be known forever more as a braggart sailing under salsa odors.”

CHICAGO’S TOWERING TEMPLE.

An Eighteen-Story Building That Will Look Like a Monster Tower. Chicago Herald. Norman T. Gassette, prime mover in the big project o£ the Masonic temple, said: "The grand structure will have its halls and corridors on the various floors named as are the street* and avenues of a city. The reason of this is to do away with all idea of altitude. Suppose a timid woman wants to see some one whose office is on the eighteenth floor. - She will draw along sigh, murmur ‘Eighteenth floor,’ and probably go back home without seeing the person, or perhaps try to cover the case by telephoning. But if she is told by the elevator boy that her friend is up on Morris street, why, of course, there is no idea of altitude; she steps into the elevator and is shot up to the eighteenth floor. There will he sixteen streets in the temple. They will be named after men who have prominent in Masonry. The first street above the main floor we will name Gurney, in honor of the late T. T. Gurney, at one time City Comptroller of Chicago, who wa6 in Masonry Past Grand Commander of Illinois as well as Past Grand Master. That’s the only name yet selected.

•‘The foundation will be of steel rails. Each floor will be like a span of a cantilever bridge. They will be drawn together with red-hot bolts, so that there can absolutely be no vibration. The atmospheric pressure has been figured in an exaggerated way. So has the velocity of the wind. To particularize: This temple will be built so as to resist the wind at a velocity of 135 miles an hour. Such a wind would level all the ordinary business blocks of the city. The weight of the people on each floor has been overestimated. We have provided to sustain a weight of as many people as could be packed in solid as sardines on every foot of space on every floor. We have also exaggerated the weight of the beams and of fireproofing. The upper floor will be as strong as the lower. They will so depend on each other as to be of uniform strength. Built on this principle it could be safely made forty stories high on that foundation. The only objeetion|would be.it would require too much,, room for elevators. We now will nfcve fourteen elevators, eightfoot cars, all arranged in a circle. That’s more elevators than there are in any other building in the city. The superstructure and foundation are alike solid. Externally the four sides of the temple will be exactly alike. Even the alley sides will be a duplicate of State and Randolph street sides. It will appear exactly the same, no matter from whatdirection viewed.

i “The general appearance of the temple will be that of a gigantic monument. The lower five stories in terra cotta, forming the base, then rising in smoothfaced brick, will gleam the shaft, while the frieze or top comes out in terracotta.- It is to be, you see, monumental. It will be the grandest structure in the city, famed for its great buildings. The temple will be completed and occupied on May 1, 1892, an even year before the World’s Fair opens.”

Women as Educators.

It is pleasant to see women coming more and more to the front in educational affairs, as teachers, as school committees, as supervisors of schools, and as originators of methods arjd advisers in tho execution of those methods. It is strange that this has not come about earlier; for it would seem as If nature herself had intimated an opinion in this regard, since it is the mother to whom the first formative processes of the child's mind are intrusted, and whoever gives the subject any thought will confess that these first processes are the most important of all, that they are the beginning of development. It is in them that the memory sets about laying in its stores, that the tendency to good or evil is received, that all tho growth is given its bent, that health of body or of mind is secured or hopelessly impaired. Bacon remarked three centuries since that a gardener takes more pains with the young than with the full grown plant, and Comenius said that tho great boughs which a tree is to have sprout from its stem in the first years of its growth. It is evident to all that the mother, the aunt, the sister, the people who are always at home and at hand, and who make it their business, have the control of all the first impressions of the child. That great thinker, Frobel, declared that the unfolding and feeding of the higher life of emotion was the moßt difficult part of the rearing of children, and that from springs all that is best in the race; and that, we all know, is almost exclusively in the hands of women—of mothers and grandmothers, aunts and elder sisters. If. then, women are the ones to whom, both by nature and the customs of society, is given! the care of children in the most crucial period of their lives, lLcortainly follows that they are capable of taking care of them in periods less vitally important, to say nothing of the fitness they acquire through their previous work in training during the earliest and confessedly most important periods, The thought -that says otherwise is hardly to be called thought, it is a habit of prejudice, and ranks with the barbarian wisdom of the Turk, who leaves the boy in the harem during his first seven years, as years of no account. It is but a few years, comparatively speaking, since women were allowed to take the work of the higher education in hand; but, so fur, not only the apparent fact that nature designed them for the work speaks for them, but the vast measure

of success that has followed them, and the reforms that have already been instituted through their means, in the constant decrease of corporal punishment, in the gentleness of method inspired by them among teachers, and in the loftiness of aim among students.

EXIT PERFUMERY.

; _ • Enter the Fashion of Bringing the OdOrs of Springtime Into Bondpir* Women who abominate a personal use of perfumes have invented a brand new way of suggesting sweet and flowery odors. These aristocrats protest that immaculate cleanliness, sunshine and fresh air supply the only fragrance a thoroughbred should care to carry about with her; sud in proof of their good faith they all affect superfine but scentless soaps, salves and lotions, with pure starch powders at the toilet. In genuine English fashion they insist that every garment before it is worn must be exposed to a prolonged sun bath, , , o t , ’ ,

No more violet sacheted laces, cologne dried hair, with breaths of white rose and jasmine to stir the senses as my lady goes by. All those little tricks have been relegated to another class. Still, notwithstanding her vigorous denunciation, the feminine soul clings to goodly pei fumes. She.could not put them altogether from her, and as a sort of compromise has transferred the formerly cherished luxury from herself to her surroundings. This new prejudice does not extend to her apartments, and these she is filling with vague yet delightful suggestions of flowery meads, rain-washed woodlands, clean-smelling herbs, and exotic blossoms, rich and heady. Indeed, the odor and not the color is now used to distinguish different chambers. The rose room signifies that charming nest, hung very possibly in warm pink tints, where every inspiration fills the lungs with an ecstasy of subtle sweetness Not only does this conserve of blended fragrance rise from wide-mouthed jars guarding the deep hearth, but liberal handfulls of the spicy petals have been strewn beneath the divan rug, and insinuated into seductive silk pillows heaped high in the dusky corner. It permeates cunningly worked head rests, ornamental pouches decorating low embroidery chairs; it is recognized in the very wax melting in tall taper stands, and again, like rare incense, bums in silver oilfed lamps. Roses of every name and color—red and white, costly longstemmed beauties and simple hedgehave alike perished in sacrifice 10 a fastidious taste. Lavender varied with orris root and verte verre lend an indescribable charm to fresh ehintze-furnished morning rooms, making them eloquent of springtime and outdoor loveliness.

It is execrably bad taste to light joss sticks any longer, but when a heavy Oriental fragrance is sought in velvetdraped boudoirs, where Eastern stuffs, soft lounging douches, East Indian idols and stained glass predominate, the effect is gained by dropping one live coal in a tiny saucer of frankincense. Some women are so captivated with the new idea that when guests are expected' their apartments are thoroughly sprinkled a quarter of an hour in advance of the strangers’ arrival. Geranium water tinges the air with a clean pungency, while the extract of lily leaves and the always delightful opopanax Are prime favorites.

Russians as Eater?.

The Russians eat on an average once every two hours. The climate .and custom—requires such frequent meals, the digestion of which is aided by frequent draught of vodki and tea. Vodki is the Russian whisky,and made from potatoes and rye. It is fiery and colorless, and flavored with some extract like vanilla ot orange. It is drank from small cups that hold, perhaps, half a gill. Vodki and lea are the inseparable accompaniments of friendly as well as of business intercourse in the country of the czar. Drunken men are rare. Russia and Sweden are the only countries in which the double dinners are the rule. When you go to the house of a Russian, he he a friend or a stranger, you are at oned invited to a side table, where salted meats, pickled eel, salted cucumbers and many other spicy and appetizing viands are urged upon you with an impressiveness that knows no refusal. This repast is washed down with frequent cups of vodki. That over, and when the visitor feels as if he had eaten enough for twenty-four hours, the, host says: ‘-And now for dinner.”

Victoria’s Love for Babies.

lady’s Pictorial. The Queen's love for babies by no means diminishes with her ever-in-creasing number of grandchildren. Indeed, the latest addition to the royal family“ always demands her special interest and at the present moment is the now baby of the Duke ans Duohess of Sparta, her Majesty’s latest greatgrandson, for whom, she exihits the greatest solicitude. A magnificent cradle has just been dispatched by his royal great-grandmother to the infant, over wnoso outfit the Queen and the Empress Frederick 6pent many hours during the latter’s sojourn some weeks ago. By the earnest request of the Queen, the Duke and Duchess of Sparta will bring Ihe baby over to see the queen next month, and the Princess Sophie, mother like, is doubtless only too proud of the opportunity to display her treasure to her English relatives

Awaiting the Stamp of Pa’s Approval.

Philadelphia Time*. “Will you trust me, dariingP” “Yes, Edward, till death.” With deep emotion the gallant youth enveloped her in his arms. And thus another envelope trust was formed.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

, The population of Kansas City is announced to be 132,416. Fire at Apalochicola, Fla., burned seventeen buildings. Loss SIOO,OOO. ; The police of Brooklyn have begun a race «nt of the people of that city. ' The total registration of Cincinnati is 0*415, being 4,384 less than last year. : The population of the United States, as shown by a census bulletin, is 62,450,540. f* A negress of Gwinnette county, Ga„ cut off her ’.over’s bead with a razor on the 27th. Mayor Fitter, of Philadelphia, has de■efted to have a police count of the people of that city. j_ It re said there is much smuggling ba. •tween the United States and Canada, es oecially of whisky. AGhicago syndicate is discussing the easibility of establishing a large iron slant at Michigan City. Two men and eight horses were killed y the wreck of Barnum’s show train near lonticello, Ga., Tuesday. It is reported that early sown winter -heat in portions of Missouri and Kansas as been ruined by the Hessian fly. Fire on Sunday night destroyed the jlacksmlth shop of the Santa Fe Road at •fission, la., entailing aloss of $20,006. The Mafia has begun operations in Louisille, Ky. The body, of an Italian was ound in the river with a knife thrust over he heart.

A call is issued for a national convention jf the non-partisan National Women’s Ohristian Temperance Union, at Allegheny lity, November 10. Capt. James Carroll has been elected ielegate to Congress by the people of Alaska, and a memorial will be presented praying Congress to admit him. Thomas McKinney, of Escanaba, Mich., became separated from a party with which he was hunting in the wilds of Michigan. He was found in a dying condition. Secretary Rusk has been interviewed. He says European restrictions on American cattle and hog products will soon be removed and the beet sugar experiment has been highly successful. St Joseph’s Catholic Church, at Delphos, 0., was broken into and the altar despoiled. The thieves secured two gold chalices and the ciborium vessels, made of solid gold, which are quite valuable.

In the Oklahoma Legislature Representative Terrell proceeded to protect himself from lobbyists, who had taken possession of the House, by drawing a revolver. The lobbyists and members fled. Speaker Reed’s quorum rulings will be tested by a suit brought by Importers at New York, who object to certain Items of the McKinley bill. Proceedings have been brought in the Federal Court. The Italian Consul General in America has sent a memorandum to the Rome Chamber of Commerce, declaring that the McKinley law is favorable to Italy’s interest and will lead to a marked increase in trade. The Superior Court of Cinoinnati has refused the application for an injunction to restrain Mayor Mosby from appointing the new Board of City Affairs of Cincinnati. The case goes direct to the Ohio Supreme Court. While two Hungarians were fighting at Gallitzin, Pa., a woman who was washing clothes near by dashed a bucket of boiling water over the combatants, one of whom was so badly scalded that the flesh peeled from his body in strips, Thomas G. Woolfolk was hanged at Perry, Ga. , on the 29th, for murdering nine persons, all members of his father’s familyi on Aug. 10, 1887. The doomed man slept well the night previous. Eight thousand people saw the hanging. He died protest, ing his innocence. Minn Shobe, a cattle raiser of Marshall, Mo., has been shipping cattle to Mexico consigned to-his partner, Hr R. WttTKgy Recently be received an order from Walk er not to ship any more as the Mexican government has just placed an import duty of SSOO a car on cattle in retaliation for the McKinley bill. A special from Knoxville, Tenn., says: Reports received here Monday night show that a considerable quantity olsnow fall in the mountains Monday night. Two to four inches are reported at Cranberry. This is about two or three weeks earlier than usual for’snow in the mountains. In some places snow has fallen on green leaves. Miss Lizzie Phelps, a society belle and heiress, who lives near Binghampton, N. Y., was marriod to William Slattery, the family' coachman. Miss Phelps is a niece of the late Judge Sherman D. Phelps, concerning whom and whose relatives there has beeu unlimited newspaper gossip. The bride, Who is one of three about twenty-seven years of age and is worth SIOO,OOO. The family of Robert Paul, at Middleton, Win., has been afflicted with diphtheria, which was brought into the house in a s’ngular manner. About four weeks ago astray cat came to their home and one of the children handled and played with it Although it was uoticed at the time that -it discharged at the nose and mouth nothing was thought of it until soon after, when the little boy eame dewu with blackdiphtheria of the most malignant kind that the doctor said he had caught from the cat. The boy died; then a second son took the disease and died. The father, mother and daughter were also stricken down and recovered. Alien, the only ro inaining sou and support of his parents care'. for them all through their terrible sickness, holding one of the boys when dying, and preparing them for their last esting place with his own hands. When the others were recovering ho was taken down and died.

FOREIGN.

Advices received from Scotland on the 38th say that Canadian cattle just landed at Dundee are diseased. Tho statement is based on the report of the experts of the Board of Agriculture that examination of the lungs of three animals disclosed die Unct evidence that when alive they had suffered from pleuro-pneumonia. A cable from Warsaw says: “Thepapers are full of accounts of the foundering off Cape St Vincent of a steamer carrying 1,000 Russian emigrants, bound for Brazil.”

WELCOMED TO AMERICA.

Arrival of Messrs. O'Brien, Dillon, Snllivan and Harrington.' ' ■

Mr. William O’Brien, M. P., and bis wife; Mr. John Dillon, M. P., T. D. Sullivan, M. P., and bis wife, and Timothy Harrington arrived at New York on the 2d on the steamer La Champagne. Areception committee representing the Irish societies of New York, accompanied by several hundred members of the National League and the various Irish societies, met them at quarantine. Upon the arrival of the steamer at her dock a reception was held on her deck, and at 11 o’clock the party was driven to the Hoffman House. The party had scarcely reached the hotel when Governor . Hill called upon them. The Governor warmly welcomed them to the city and State, expressed his hearty sympathy with the cause they represented and signed his name to the address of welcome that had been prepared by the Irish societies. Mayor Grant also called and expressed sentiments similar to those of the Governor, and also appended his name to the address of welcome.

To the representatives of the press Mr. O’Brien related the details of his escape from Ireland as follows: “We delayed our trip as long as there was any chance of our being able to visit America in the interval between the sentence and the appeal. We saw that the Government was deliberately eating away that interval, and as soon as that became evident we came away. The plan was simplicity itself. We went out of the frontdoor of a conspicuous house inDub" lin without any disguise at all. We drove in a carriage to Dalkoy, and supped at the house of Mr. Healy that night At midnight we were rowed aboard the yacht St. Patrick, which set sail,in a gale, from Kingstown at once. While we were being provisioned, just before the start, the coast guard came alongside and questioned Captain Murphy and Sheriff Clancy of Dublin, who were with us. We escaped detection and sailed for the Welsh coast where we lay three days becalmed, within a pistol shot of the shoro and in full view of the coast guards. Then we were becalmed three days more right in the course -Of English shipping in the channel, and it half the scrutiny had been given to us that was exercised in searching out-bound vessels we would have been detected sure. We reached the French coast on the evenj ing of the seventh day and wentto Paris.’ Mr. O’Brien then read a statement of the objects of the visit of himself and Mr. Dillon, which is made at the desire and upon the authority of Mr. Parnell, and predicted that a general election will occur in Great Britain in less than two years. After remaining at New York until after the electiou the visitors will hold meetings in Philadelphia, Boston, Newark and Jersey City. They will afterward divide into two or three parties and make a tour of the country. 1

THE RUSSIAN OUTBREAK.

Uprising of Pea mn try Due to Unusual Cruelty of Those In Power, A dispatch from Vienna says that the Russian authorities at St. Petersburg and» Odessa are making every effort to suppress the circumstances connected with the outbreak of the peasantry in Southern Russia. The revolt is said to have originated in the stringent enforcement of the conscription, from which the rich landholders find ways to escape, and the cruelties fall upon the peasants. Tho elders of villages, men held in veneration by their neighbors, have been brutally flogged for stqall alleged offenses, and tho knout has been used on the slightest pretense. The outbreak originated near Zmiev, about fifty miles from Kharkov, being prompted by some act of judicial cruelty not fully known, The peasants, having firearms, seized any - weapons at command, drove the magistral tes from the place and began a campaign of murder and arson against the officials and the aristocracy. The first detachment of troops sent against them was defeated and forced to retire, and General Dragomiroff ordered six regiments of infantry and two of cavalry to the, scene. At last acs counts they had not yet encountered the peasants, said to be swollen to vast numbers and very resolute, though badly armed. The Russian government has redoubled the strength of the guardson the Prussian frontiOriih a determined effort to prevent Polish emigrants from leaving the country. The refugees who succeeded in eluding the guards tell stories of cruelty on the part of tho guards difficult to credit, though many of them bear tho marks of the knout and bludgeon, and plainly suffer from the effect of the fatigue and exposure

VESSELS COLLIDE A[?] SEA.

n I jirsiii Mora Than Sixty People Perish —Both Vessels <Jo Down, The Captain of tho steamer Humboldt from South American ports, who arrived at New York, Friday, reports that at 6 o’clock Friday morning, six miles east of Barnegnl, he sighted a wreck and bore down to it. The wrecked vessel proved to be the steamer Vizcaya, which sailed* Thursday for Havanna, He saw several persons in the rigging, and seat a boat to their rescue. The chief and a second officer, the surgeon, one engineer and eight of the crew were taken off and brought here. The persons rescued stated that on tho evening of the 30th inst, at 8 o’clock, the steamer was run into by a four-masted, coal-laden schooner, supposed to be bound to the northward. Both vessels sank, within five minutes. One oolored boy was taken ashore by the sohooner’s boat and landed at Barnegat. Captain Cumill of tbe Vizcaya was drowned, as were also a part of her crew in all about sixty-one persona. The four passengers of the Vizcaya were all lost They were a Cuban millionaire, his wife and two children. The captain and crew of the schooner are supposed to be lost The survivors are unable to give the parv ticulars of the collision or its cause. The Vizcaya was 1,388 tons register. She belonged to the Spanish line of steamers plying between New York and Havana. J. Id. Ceballos, the company’s agent is here.'